Vegan & Vegetarian Restaurants in Yokohama: 2026 Guide

Yokohama's vegan scene is small but genuinely interesting once you know where to look, anchored by a couple of rare fully vegan restaurants and two century-old Chinatown institutions that maintain real, separately prepared vegan menus — a combination hard to find in any other Japanese city.

Fully vegan: M's Table and Cheeba Shokudou

M's Table (2F of the POMPADOUR bakery building, 4-171 Motomachi, Naka-ku; 5–7 min from Motomachi-Chūkagai Station; 045-228-8853) is Yokohama's most established 100% vegan restaurant, open since 2019 (seat count varies by source — roughly 27 to 46 depending on current layout, so it's worth calling ahead for a group). No meat, seafood, eggs, dairy, or white sugar touches the kitchen. The menu runs from curry, tan-tan noodles, and ramen to soy-meat pasta, gyoza, pizza, and burgers, plus a dessert case (chocolate tart, cheesecake, pancakes, parfaits) and soy-milk coffee. Most dishes run ¥1,000–1,500. Hours are Tue–Fri 11:00–17:00 and 17:00–20:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–19:00 — call ahead around holidays, as hours shift.

Cheeba Shokudou (ヴィーガン＆オーガニック ちーば食堂) isn't a fixed storefront but a pop-up — 100% vegan, 100% organic, pesticide-free, with no refined sugar or additives. Find it Mon & Wed 11:00–14:30 at Cotomono Cafe in Ishikawa-chō (2 min from Ishikawa-chō Station) and Fri lunch at Veggies Park near Kannai; we could not independently confirm reports of additional Chinatown takeout days. Dishes are built from seasonal Kanagawa produce. Because the schedule is pop-up-based, confirm the current lineup on their Vegewel listing or social accounts before visiting.

The Chinatown angle most guides miss

Yokohama Chinatown isn't usually where vegan travelers look, but two long-running restaurants there maintain genuine, separately prepared vegan menus. Peking Hanten (北京飯店), founded in 1955 next to Chōyō-mon (East Gate) and credited with popularizing Peking duck in Japan, was a Tabelog Hyakumeiten (top-100) pick in 2024. Most of its menu features meat, but it keeps a dedicated vegan section with yuba vegetable rolls, spicy stir-fried eggplant, vegetable crepe rolls, and five-grain vegetable fried rice.

Koukien (好記園), on Chinatown's south-gate "Silk Road" street, goes further: around 50 dishes built on Taiwanese-style "素食" (vegan) cooking, using soy-based mock shrimp, mackerel, and chicken. Roughly ten vegan ramen varieties are on offer, including tantanmen and a spicy-sour suanlatang-men, priced ¥800–850. The vegan menu was added a few years after the restaurant opened. Hours run 11:00–15:00 and 17:00–21:00 on weekdays, 11:00–21:00 on weekends and holidays — and note the restaurant is closed Thursdays.

Everywhere else worth a trip

Nakshatra (155 Yamashita-chō, Naka-ku, Dōwa Bldg 2F; 045-264-9984) is a South Indian restaurant, not fully vegan, but the owner fries vegan items in a separate fryer and the bilingual menu covers masala dosa, idli, vada with coconut sauce, sambar, uthappam, beans poriyal, bhindi masala, aloo gobi, dal curry, and chana masala. Hours run Tue–Fri 11:00–15:00 and 17:30–22:00, Sat–Sun 12:00–15:00 and 17:30–22:00; closed Mondays (open 12:00–22:00 if Monday is a public holiday) — worth confirming directly, as listings vary.

Kisekicafe (きせきの食卓; 3F, ZALETTA Motomachi I, 2-93 Motomachi; 045-264-9678) is an organic/macrobiotic café up the stairs between ENOTECA and HENCKEL, three minutes from Motomachi-Chūkagai Station. Of its three set meals, only the "畑のごはん" (Field Meal) is fully vegan — the "海のごはん" and "山のごはん" sets contain fish or meat, so order carefully. It's known for its miso soup and pesticide-free brown rice.

RUCY+R, in Joinus Dining B1F directly under Yokohama Station's west exit, is a 100% plant-based spice-curry outlet (no animal products, dairy, eggs, wheat, refined sugar, or yeast extract) that opened in August 2023. The Spice Curry (¥890) can be topped with Roasted Vegetables (+¥280), or order the vegetable-packed brown-rice curry set — two curries, roasted vegetables, salad, and dessert — for ¥1,980. Open 11:00–23:00 (food LO 22:00) daily except New Year's Day.

CARVAAN BAY YOKOHAMA (7F, Hulic Minatomirai Colette Mare, Sakuragi-chō; 045-306-8380), a Middle Eastern/Mediterranean restaurant five minutes from Sakuragichō Station, keeps dedicated vegan, vegetarian, Muslim-friendly, and organic sections on its menu. Standouts include falafel with tahini, in-house baked ancient-wheat bread, and a Karnıyarık-style stuffed-eggplant tajine (¥2,750). Budget ¥3,000–5,000; note kids aren't admitted during dinner service.

Together these eight cover four very different needs — a full sit-down vegan meal, a quick plant-based curry near the station, an upscale vegan-friendly dinner, and a genuinely unusual Chinatown vegan detour that most Yokohama guides miss entirely.